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The BBC have plans to allow global access to their iPlayer feature, which streams BBC TV content across the web. Up until now the service has only been available in the UK.

There’s been some recent shake up in the big three console sales – the PS3 recently has taken a surge in sales, most likely due to the price drop to $299 and the introduction of the new Slim model. In September the PS3 outsold both the Wii and the XBox360 for the first time. XBox360 sales dropped to third place behind the Wii. Seems like the tables have turned.

Meanwhile Nintendo’s president has been talking about the Wii’s slump in sales, and the difficulty of keeping a constant flow of high demand games. There may be some enhancements coming to the Wii platform maybe sooner than expected, to keep gamer’s interest in the now sagging Wii.

Today was full of Android news… Engadget have a good round up of the stories and announcements here

All the major device manufacturers and wireless carriers are getting read to release their Google Android based phones, joining T-Mobile which was first to market with the HTC G1 and more recently the HTC MyTouch3G:

• Sprint launched their HTC Hero on October 12th, and have the sweet looking Samsung Moment coming on November 1st
• Verizon’s ‘Droid’ from Motorola turns out to be a range on Android phones, not just the Motorola Sholes, which recently was referred to as the Motorola Droid. They also have the Droid Eris coming, which is Verizon’s branded HTC Sense.
• Motorola have also been quoted as stating that the majority of all their new phones for 2010 will be Android based, choosing to bet their comeback heavily on relying on Android as their common phone platform
• Motorola’s Zeppelin has been photographed, but no other details yet
• Dell has an Android based phone in works, as well as a rumored tablet like device
• Barnes and Noble’s eBook reader was has been in the news recently as a competitor to Amazon’s Kindle is also an Android based device